Blog # 3 Personal Research

I'm feeling pretty good with my research question. I feel like it's narrow enough to really do a quality study but with the sense of place dimension added, it allows for some depth. With sense of place added I can explore things like community connected-ness and social engagements rather than just engagement alone. I'm realizing that even just engagement can be measured it many ways.

I have really awesome student sand they are making my life so easy by giving me really awesome data. They're putting a lot of thought and effort into their work and especially into their reflections which gives me a great view into their learning lens.

For me the research hasn't been too hard to find. There's a lot of literature out there about student engagement. I feel like I'm finally asking the right questions to get me the right literature. For example I needed to discern between "What does student engagement look like?" and "How do you measure student engagement?" This allowed me to look at literature that was talking about measuring student engagement and others that attempted to create a measurement tool to measure engagement.

My research really tackles a few points. I really have to define engagement and sense of place because they  are in the title of my paper. There's currently a lot of literature on both so I'm feeling pretty good. I feel like I can somewhat wrap my head around sense of place after reading multiple lenses on it.

So overall I'm feeling alright about the research question and the research.